Quotes by Washington Allston - Page 1

No man knows himself as an original.
Washington Allston / Painter
Men
Knows
Originality
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Never judge a work of art by its defects.
Washington Allston / Painter
Art
Work
Defects
Judging
Umpires
Judge
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I have no ambition to shine beyond my abilities.
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Ability
Ambition
Shining
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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Wise
Men
Adventure
Worthy
Wise Wise Man Man
Wise Man
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The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.
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Gains
Made
Painter
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Injustice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad.
Washington Allston / Painter
Home
Injustice
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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
Washington Allston / Painter
Consequence
Distinction
Mind
Objects
Great Mind
Object
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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
Washington Allston / Painter
Art
Home
Selfishness
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The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Washington Allston / Painter
Common
Envy
Praise
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In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.
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He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
Washington Allston / Painter
Respect
Fit
Looks
Pleasure
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
Washington Allston / Painter
Art
Doors
Genius
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The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Washington Allston / Painter
Fool
Mercy
Proud
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Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
Washington Allston / Painter
Faster
People
Trying
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Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
Washington Allston / Painter
Desert
Essentials
Reality
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Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
Washington Allston / Painter
Healing
Humility
Pride
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Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
Washington Allston / Painter
Popularity
Reputation
Voters
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Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
Washington Allston / Painter
Men
Justice
Vanity
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Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
Washington Allston / Painter
Men
Faults
Idols
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The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
Washington Allston / Painter
Half
Lying
Peculiar
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I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
Washington Allston / Painter
Lying
Thinking
Traveler
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If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
Washington Allston / Painter
Art
Delight
Excellence
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Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.
Washington Allston / Painter
Hundred
Lying
Toads
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All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
Washington Allston / Painter
Men
Believe
Effort
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The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.
Washington Allston / Painter
Artist
Doe
World
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I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.
Washington Allston / Painter
Men
Believe
Excellence
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If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!
Washington Allston / Painter
Men
Truth
World
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Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.
Washington Allston / Painter
Excellence
Hate
Silence
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An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.
Washington Allston / Painter
Men
Half
Mind
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Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.
Washington Allston / Painter
Color
Eye
Giving
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If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston / Painter
Able
Ignorance
World
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Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.
Washington Allston / Painter
Art
Mind
Tyrants
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It is a hard matter for a man to lie all over, nature having provided king's evidence in almost every member. The hand will sometimes act as a vane, to show which way the wind blows, even when every feature is set the other way; the knees smite together and sound the alarm of fear under a fierce countenance; the legs shake with anger when all above us calm.
Washington Allston / Painter
Kings
Blow
Lying
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It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.
Washington Allston / Painter
Delay
Evil
Lazy
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